Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Dr Southgate has worked as a research academic at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW; in community development at Lake Macquarie City Council; and as a teaching and research academic in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Newcastle, 09/03/2001

Bachelor of Education, University of Newcastle, 07/05/1993

Research

Research keywords

Community engagement

Complex social problems

Education and technology

Equity and education

Feminist epistemologies

Policy analysis

Professional experience in teacher education

Qualitative research methodology

Social disadvantage and marginalisation

Social justice and equity

Sociology of education

Sociology of health

Research expertise

Dr Southgate has conducted social research into the areas of education, welfare, community development, health systems, and the effects of social disadvantage and marginalisation. Presently she is undertaking research into the role of professional experience in preservice teacher education and in equity of education, including school and higher education. Dr Southgate is a qualitative researcher with expertise in focus group and interview methods and in ethnography. She has also been a member of mixed-method research teams. Her theoretical interests are in feminism, Foucault, poststructuralism, gender and social class, education and social policy, sociology of education and health, and complex social problems.

Languages

English

Fields of Research

Code

Description

Percentage

130000

Education

40

111700

Public Health And Health Services

30

160807

Sociological Methodology And Research Methods

30

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Dr Southgate is the founder and coordinator of the Teach Outreach volunteer program for students studying to be teachers.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

Educational policy

Foundations of Education

Qualitative research methodology

Social theory and education

Teaching expertise

Dr Southgate teaches in the foundation of education and sociology of education for undergraduate students and in educational policy analysis and social theory and education at postgraduate level.

Other (1 outputs)

Year

Citation

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Link

2014

Southgate E, Buchanan R, 'Editors: Special Issue: This century becomes you: qualitative inquiry, being/there and social becoming in the 21st century', Creative Approaches to Research: Association for Qualitative Research (2014)

Overcoming limiting notions of academic capability: strategies to improve the participation and completion rates of students from non-traditional and low socio-economic backgrounds$47,336Funding Body: Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education

Scheme

Role

Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education Seed Funding

Investigator

Total Amount

Funding Start

Funding Finish

$47,336

2014

2014

GNo:185825991

A qualitative study of equity and elite degrees$42,475Funding Body: Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education

Scheme

Role

Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education Seed Funding

Chief Investigator

Total Amount

Funding Start

Funding Finish

$42,475

2014

2014

GNo:185825975

The M-learning literacy app$36,950Funding Body: Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education

Scheme

Role

Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education Seed Funding

Investigator

Total Amount

Funding Start

Funding Finish

$36,950

2014

2014

GNo:185825983

Equity in elite degrees: social difference, institutional practice and processes of change$15,000Funding Body: Faculty of Education and Arts, UoN